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Gospel Book fragment

Record ID:

76960

Accession number:

MS G.26

Title:

Gospel Book fragment

Created:

England, 8th century.

Credit:

Gift of the Trustees of the William S. Glazier Collection, 1984.

Description:

1 leaf (1 column, 26 lines) : vellum, ill. ; 276 x 189 mm

Provenance:

Joseph Sattler; Max Kammerer, Wartenberg (Bavaria); purchased in Nov. 1954 from Arthur Rau, Paris for William S. Glazier (1907-1962), New York; deposited in the Pierpont Morgan Library by the Trustees of the William S. Glazier Collection in 1963.

Notes:

Ms. Gospel Book single leaf, written and decorated in England, 8th century.Text: Luke 23:29-24:8.Decoration: small initials, mostly with pale yellow and blue filling.Matted.

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